2018-2020

Return on Investment

This year NC LIVE is proud to provide member libraries with a twelvefold return on investment, surpassing the sevenfold ROI of our last resource cycle. This means that for every one dollar that NC LIVE spends, North Carolina communities get access to twelve dollars of resources.

Selection Criteria

All selections were based on the following key criteria:

Value across COIs

Cost per use

Accessibility

Quantity of content for $

User experience

Change cost to community

Quality of content for $

Process and Timeline

In order to ensure the best possible suite of resources for our communities, we selected resources based on community input and expert assessment. We solicited recommendations in a survey open to every library staff person at every member institution across the state. Every recommendation was considered and assessed by the Resource Advisory Committee (RAC), which consists of three representatives from each of NC LIVE’s four Communities of Interest (COIs). Recommendations from the RAC were then reviewed and approved by the Librarians’ Council (LC), which consists of COI representatives, committee chairs, and the State Librarian of NC. We are excited to report that we were able to add every resource recommended by four or more library staff members across the state. You can read more about the selection process and timeline at nclive.org/about/resource-selection.

Career database that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. Includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. ReferenceUSA makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more.

My library has its own subscription to one of the newly-added resources. Can I get a refund now that NC LIVE is providing it to the whole consortium?

We have negotiated with vendors to ensure that any existing subscriptions that member libraries hold to new NC LIVE resources will be prorated and refunded appropriately. You can contact your vendor directly to initiate this process.

Can libraries get early access to a resource before it launches on January 1?

NC LIVE libraries already have complimentary, early access to Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection, ProQuest Research Companion, eLibrary Curriculum Edition, and SIRS Discoverer from Proquest. Some additional resources may be available prior to January 1. If early access becomes available, we will notify member libraries.

Some of these resources are new to me. What opportunities are available for training on the new resources?

Our Instruction Librarian is in the process of organizing the following instructional opportunities for our membership and will announce them as they become available:

How long are the contracts for?

Six years for all ProQuest resources (see list below), and three years for all other resources.

I use EZProxy to enable offsite access to NC LIVE resources. How/when/who will configure my EZProxy to enable these new resources? Will I get MARC records for the new resources?

As we get closer to launching the new resources, we’ll be sending out an email for each new resource with proxy information and MARC records.

I understand there are options for the Credo Reference Collection. What are they, and what's the difference?

The choices for the Credo Reference collection are Academic Core or Complete Core. Academic Core is comprised of around 700 titles with a focus on academic general reference for college and university settings. Complete Core is comprised of around 1,000 titles and includes all the content of Academic Core as well as content geared toward general-interest patrons and younger audiences in a public library setting, e.g., juvenile reference, test prep, parenting titles, DIY books, etc. Public libraries will default to Complete Core; academic libraries will default to Academic Core; and existing customers will default to their current selection. Any library can switch to another version upon request.

What specific resources are included under the six-year renewal of NC LIVE's ProQuest Custom Collection?

ABI/INFORM Collection

Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection

African-American Poetry

American Poetry

Arts & Humanities Database

Asian & European Business Collection

Australia & New Zealand Database

Biology Database

Business Market Research Collection

Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database

Canadian Newsstream

Career & Technical Education Database

Computing Database

Continental Europe Database

Criminal Justice Database

East & Central Europe Database

East & South Asia Database

ebrary Academic and Public Library Complete (Ebook Central)

Education Database

English Poetry

Entrepreneurship Database

Environmental Science Collection

Faber Poetry Library

Family Health Database

Health & Medical Collection

Health Management Database

HeritageQuest

India Database

International Newsstream

Latin America & Iberia Database

Library Science Database

Linguistics Database

Middle East & Africa Database

Military Database

New York Times (*part of US Newsstream collection)

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

Nursing & Allied Health Database

Political Science Database

ProQuest Central

ProQuest Research Library

Psychology Database

Public Health Database

Religion Database

Sanborn Maps North Carolina

Science Database

SIRS Government Reporter

SIRS Issues Researcher

SIRS Knowledge Source Package

SIRS Renaissance

Social Science Database

Sociology Database

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Telecommunications Database

Turkey Database

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry

Twentieth Century American Poetry

Twentieth Century English Poetry

U.K. & Ireland Database

US Newsstream

Wall Street Journal (*part of ABI/INFORM Collection)

What specific resources have been added to NC LIVE's ProQuest Custom Collection for the six-year contract?

eLibrary

Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection

History Study Center

ProQuest Learning: Literature

Research Companion

SIRS Discoverer

Summon Discovery Service

Will there be any changes in NC LIVE's perpetual access collections?

NC LIVE will continue to provide perpetual access to the following collections of owned materials:

ABC-CLIO E-book Collection

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

HomeGrown Ebooks Collection (hosted on BiblioBoard)

MyiLibrary

NC LIVE Video Collection

RBdigital (Note: Individual libraries add about 1-2 books a month to this collection for use by patrons at any NC LIVE library. Please see our MARC Records for the most up-to-date records.)